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Contents

CHAPTER 1: THE ORIGINAL LAND AND SHORES: SCULPTING A CITY

Walk Around the Coastline—Mid-Nineteenth Century

Islands and Rocks

The Filling of the Bay and the Abandoned Gold Rush Fleet

Tearing Down the Hills

San Francisco’s Sand Dunes and Marshland

Shelly Cocoas

CHAPTER 2: AMUSEMENT PARKS

Woodward’s Gardens

Remembrance of Woodward’s Gardens

The Chutes on Haight Street

The Chutes at Tenth and Fulton

The Fillmore Street Chutes

Playland at the Beach

Herb Caen’s View on Playland

CHAPTER 3: OCEAN, BAY & WHARF-SIDE ATTRACTIONS

Meigg’s Wharf and the Cobweb Palace

Cobweb Palace

Sutro Heights

Adolph Sutro’s San Francisco

The Cliff House

The Cliff House and the Parallel

Sutro’s Baths & Museum

Memories of Sutro Baths

CHAPTER 4: GAMBLING HOUSES, PARLORS, CLUBS, SALOONS AND DIVES

The Gold Rush Era

The Enterprise Years

Post-Quake San Francisco

The Depression and War Years

The Fillmore Jazz Clubs

The Beat Era—Post WWII

The Primalon on Fillmore Street

The Curtain Falls

David de Alba at the Finocchio Club

CHAPTER 5: EARLY THEATRES & STAGE

The Early Years—First Half of the Golden Era

Elisa Biscaccianti

San Francisco’s Star Rises—Second Half of the Golden Era

Civil War and Silver

CHAPTER 6: CALIFORNIA MIDWINTER INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION—1894

California Midwinter International Exposition—

CHAPTER 7: PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION - 1915

The Planning Begins

Building the Exposition

The Exposition City and Its Exhibits

State and International Buildings and Facilities

The Joy Zone

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition Experience

Memories of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

The End of a Great Fair

CHAPTER 8: GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION—1939

The Planning Begins

Building the Exposition

The Exposition City and Its Exhibits

State and Federal Buildings and Facilities

International Participation

The Joy Zone

The Golden Gate International Exposition Experience

The End of a Great Fair

A Young View of the Golden Gate International Exposition

CHAPTER 9: SAN FRANCISCO’S RESTAURANTS OF THE PAST

The Poodle Dog

The French Room—Clift Hotel Menu

The Italians

Eating Chinese

Theme Restaurants

Coffee Dan’s

The Domino Club

An Exile’s Toast

CHAPTER 10: SAN FRANCISCO’S EARLY GRAND HOTELS

San Francisco’s Early Hotels

The Niantic Hotel

Gold Rush Hotels

San Francisco’s First Grand Hotels

The Lick House

The Grand Hotel

Senator Sharon and Miss Hill at the Grand Hotel

The Palace Hotel

The Baldwin Hotel

Nearly the End of an Era

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

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